A Developer’s Guide to Amazon SimpleDB

Book Description

The Complete Guide to Building Cloud
Computing Solutions with Amazon SimpleDB

Using SimpleDB, any organization can
leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s powerful
cloud-based computing platform–and dramatically reduce the
cost and resources associated with application infrastructure. Now,
for the first time, there’s a complete developer’s
guide to building production solutions with Amazon SimpleDB.

Pioneering SimpleDB developer Mocky Habeeb
brings together all the hard-to-find information you need to
succeed. Mocky tours the SimpleDB platform and APIs, explains their
essential characteristics and tradeoffs, and helps you determine
whether your applications are appropriate for SimpleDB. Next, he
walks you through all aspects of writing, deploying, querying,
optimizing, and securing Amazon SimpleDB applications–from
the basics through advanced techniques.

Throughout, Mocky draws on his unsurpassed
experience supporting developers on SimpleDB’s official Web
forums. He offers practical tips and answers that can’t be
found anywhere else, and presents extensive working sample
code–from snippets to complete applications.

With A Developer’s Guide to Amazon
SimpleDB you will be able to

Evaluate whether a project is suited for Amazon SimpleDB

Write SimpleDB applications that take full advantage of
SimpleDB’s availability, scalability, and flexibility